

It’s not every day that someone makes an attempt on your life. But Elijah Bowles believes that’s exactly what happened last week, when he picked up a package at the Twentynine Palms Post Office and found a live rattlesnake inside.
Someone had put cotton balls in the box so postal workers wouldn’t hear the snake’s rattle, the 60-year-old truck driver said.
“That’s attempted murder, if you ask me,” he said.
Bowles picked up the package Thursday and asked a friend to open it as they drove away from the…